Improved bridle-halter



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE IV. GRISVOLD, OF LOGANSPORT, INDIANA.

IMPRovED Belote-HALTER.

Specification forming part of LettersPaten-t No. 35,932, dated July 22,186..

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. GeIsWoLD, of Logans'port, in the county ofCass andv State of Indiana, have invented certain new and usef ulImprovements in BridlegHalters; and I do hereby declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the construction andoperation'of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,making a part of this specification, in 'which-l Figure l represents aperspective view of the bridle and halter united; and Fig. 2 representsa perspective view of the halter, the bridle portion-having beenremoved.

Similar letters o1" reference', wherethey oc! our in the separatefigures, denote like'parts of the bridle-halter in both of the drawings.

My invention consists in a bridle-halter" so made as that the bit andits straps and reins may be readily attached to ordetached from theother portions, leaving a halter upon Vthe horses head constantly, whichneed not be removed.

To enable others skilled in' the art to make and use my invention, yIwill proceed to describe the same with reference to `the drawings.

A`A A represent an ordinary halter, in-

' which la a are the side straps; b,the nose-strap;

c, the ring-strap; d, the forehead-strap, and e the throat-latch strap.These straps are oommon on ordinary halters. To this halter I add altablet, f, which maybe connected to both the forehead-strap d and theside or head straps, a a, by means of a split strap, g, or in any othersuitable'manner; and to the tablet f is attached a ring, loop, orbuckle, h, for sustaining and holding the. bit, ,its straps, and

- reins when` connected to the -halter larticleidor buckle h on thetablet f. It will be readily seen how lquickly and easily" this articleis convertedi-nto `a bridle and froma'bridleinto a halter.v The halteror headstall A may vreina-in onthe horses head constantly. To make it abridle, the bit i is inserted into the mouth of the horse and thesnap-hook' m caught in theloop or ringrh.

. To remove the bridle, detach the snaphook m, and the bit drops out ofthe horses mouth, leaving the halter or headstall remaining.

Thus the horse is always haltered, and can 'weighty thana bridle andhalter in separate parts, as it dispenses with those parts of each thatwould be ,merely duplicates when separately made.

That the tabletf may not hurt the forehead of the horse it may becushioned, and as afurther security against any indentation bysuchsnap-hook, buckle, or whatever otherfastening may be used a metal platemay be interv posed between the tablet and the pad or cushion under it.The strap 7, instead of being fastened to the tablet or theforehead'strap d, may be fastened to the head-*strap a by eX- tending itthat far, in which case the strap g might be dispensed with. ABysplitting the strap k both sides of the bit are held up by onefastening. The usual buckles and loops may be used for adjusting theseveral'straps orfor uniting them into a whole. Having thus fullydescribed my'inv'ention, I would state -that a bridle-halter hasheretofore been madein which the .bit was buttoned onto the nose-strap.rI`his I do not claim;.but W'hat I do claim in a bridle-halter is- Thestraps hk, united to the bit and hooked .or buckled to the `head orforehead strap, the

' GEO. W. GRIsWoLD.

. Witnesses v L.-A. GAPWELL, A.' S. WILSON.

